[Plantsci] Questions for March 26 Tues SPLS All-Employee meeting 10:00-10:50 am

[Bucksch, Alexander - (bucksch)]

Dear Judy,

Thank you for the opportunity to ask questions to the deans office. I respond to your request during the faculty meeting to ask my questions directly to the deans office.

You reported to us that the deans office demonstrated to you how SPLS is financially behind most other units in CALES. However, this conflicts with the projection data for our unit that the deans office published on March 11 on the COMPASS website. In fact, the projections for SPLS are good according to the deans office! I attach you the Projection summary.

I think if there is an additional financial crisis looming over our unit that impacts the way we do our work as you reported, then we need to discuss this data at the very beginning of the meeting and get the data explained in detail. I think it is outmost important to fully understand the data used to judge our work and understand where you were coming from in the faculty meeting. Therefore, I ask for an explanation of the data that your report was founded on.

It would also be helpful to distribute the data showing us in a financially bad light before the meeting. In that way, we can prepare sound and thoughtful questions instead of ad hoc opinions. Looking forward to you sharing this data with us because an improved understanding will benefit all of us and keeps the meeting on time.

Thank you for your support of our unit,
Alex

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Dr. Alexander Bucksch
Associate Professor - School of Plant Sciences
BIO5 member
GIDP Faculty in Data Science & Statistics and Applied Mathematics

e: bucksch at arizona.edu
w: http://www.computational-plant-science.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abucksch/


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On Mar 23, 2024, at 6:43 PM, Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown) <JBrown at ag.arizona.edu> wrote:

Dear Everyone,

You are invited to share your questions in advance of Tuesday’s meeting.
Please forward to me before the end of the day Monday March 25th.

https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83409301693


Available to help answer your questions will be myself and the following from CALES:
Mr. Jeff Ratje – broad UA-CALES questions, budget
Janice Rutherford -  CALES budget questions
Leslie Bonilla – SPLS business office and budget questions


Thank you – see you all there,

Judy / Dr. Brown


P.S. There is a class in the room at 11:00 am, so we’ll need to vacate the room no later than 10:50am. Thanks for your cooperation.
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